OpenAI has responded to criticism that it shipped GPT-5 with token limits to minimize cost and maximize profit not with words, but rather with a new 3,000-per-week limit.
In a series of posts on X, Sam Altman confirmed that OpenAI is working on a 3,000-per-week limit for GPT-5 Thinking messages for Plus users.
This will increase the reasoning rate limits available today, but OpenAI does not plan to stop at just this.
Sam Altman claims that OpenAI will soon raise all model-class rate limits “above pre-GPT-5 levels.”
This move might make GPT-5 one of the most affordable models in the market.
OpenAI to address other GPT-5 concerns
Users have previously complained that it’s not clear when GPT-5 automatically switches between Thinking and other smaller models, such as GPT-5-mini.
Thankfully, OpenAI is testing a new UI indicator to show which model is working. This will address most of the concerns we’ve with GPT-5.
In addition, Sam Altman noted that more and more users are using the reasoning models because GPT-5 can automatically route queries to different models.
“The percentage of users utilizing reasoning models each day has significantly increased from <1% to 7% for free users, and from 7% to 24% for Plus users, and is expected to keep rising, making higher rate limits important tomorrow or Tuesday,” Sam Altman wrote in an X post.
“Tomorrow or Tuesday we expect to share our thinking on how we are going to make capacity tradeoffs over the coming months,” Sam added.
For example, we might see comparisons between ChatGPT vs the API, existing users vs new ones, research vs product, etc.
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